by Luis Sepúlveda · Edições Asa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789892300160
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Crónicas do Sul» is the chronicle book by Luis Sepúlveda, published by Edições Asa in paperback (128 pages, in Portuguese).
Crónicas do Sul brings together texts written between spring 2005 and December 2006, when Pinochet dies. It reflects on repression, impunity and intolerance, and finds reasons for hope in Michelle Bachelet and in the struggle for quality education.
The translation is by Henrique Tavares e Castro, and the 128-page paperback edition was published in 2007.
For readers interested in Latin American chronicle and the historical memory of post-dictatorship Chile.
Tapa blanda
Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura was a Chilean writer and journalist. A communist militant and fervent opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime, he was imprisoned and tortured by the military dictatorship during the 1970s. Sepúlveda authored numerous poetry books and short stories; in addition to Spanish, his mother tongue, he also spoke English, the language in which he wrote his first novel, El viejo que leía novelas de amor.
